Thats a tough situation Tony but God knows what he is doing and His will will be the ultimate outcome!! Praying for you and your family!! Jeremiah 29:11!
Tony you are a heck of a good guy, I'm sure everything will work out in Andrew's favor. He should definitely be where he feels the safest and that is with you, not the crazy nana. It is an awesome thing you have done for that kid and his life. Keep on sewing those positive seeds! Take care
Update 5/25/10 We went to mediation yesterday .. I never thought we would find a compromise the way she is ... but I should have thought she would NEVER pay for a lawyer to see Andrew .. this is all about control with her ... but I digress... We got into mediation and to make a long story short, we agreed to theraputic supervised visitation with Catholic Charities once per month for an hour .... IF Andrew is willing to go. Supervised visitation was our platform all along ...so...we won Granny did alot of research and must have realised she has 0 rights At one point she got to where she threatened court and all this evidence against us and my wife kind of lost her cool ... lol ..... went Ninja on granny ... I had to calm her down ... lol Thanks for the prayers and thoughts, guys .... Andrew is growing fast and with track, he has turned into a lean, mean, running machine :D
I have full faith in you and your family Tony! My wife and I are foster parents and we took in a child that has been through a lot. He and his sisters were taken from his parents at a young age. They were put with a foster family and they were busted for physical, emotional, and sexual misconduct. The sexual was with one of the sisters. My son has scars on his back where he was whipped. He also has scars on the top of his feet where he was made to put his feet under couch and do sit ups. They were taken from that family and put with a foster family that has fostered for over 35 years. They were at the point in their life that fostering was getting to hard for them due to their age. Then my other son became friends with him and he was always here. He talked to my son about it and then my wife. My wife came to me about the situation and I said that he might as well stay here because all he does not do is sleep here. Other than sleeping here he is always here anyhow. We took him in not knowing that he had sisters. Now the funny part, his sister did the same thing with my buddy and his family but they took both girls. My buddy and I were told to keep quiet due to not being foster parents yet and they said DCFS would take them from us if we talked so we did not. My buddy and I work together and did not even know. We both went to same foster parent classes and just staired at each other with the question of why are you here look. We all were shocked! Now he is 18 years old going to try and get in the military and would not trade him off for anything. He is our son and always will be! I love him just like he was mine! Keep strong and you are very correct that the good Lord is with you! The kids know what is best for them and you have to take all of that with heart! My hat is off to any foster parents out there because it is a tough choice to take in someone elses children and not know much about them. The older ones are harder to place and we took my son in at age 13. Thanks for sharing your story!
